Background
His parents were both immigrants: his father from Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother from Israel.
His parents were both immigrants: his father from Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother from Israel.
He attended the Central Intelligence Agency at the same time as his Top Chef runner-up Marcel Vigneron.
Hall is a native of Great Neck, New New York As a teenager, Hall worked at Marine Fishery, a seafood store in his hometown of Great Neck and was later trained at Italy"s Lorenzo de" Medici Apicus Program and at the Culinary Institute of America (Central Intelligence Agency). At the time of his season two Top Chef competition, Ilan was a line cook at Casa Mono, a Spanish restaurant in Manhattan.
Bravo, the television network producing Top Chef, ranks Ilan"s partaking in "The Head Shaving Incident" against Vigneron as "probably the biggest scandal in Top Chef history." Many have cited Ilan and Marcel"s disdain for one another as the most poignant aspect of season 2, as is demonstrated in the "Top Chef Reunion" episode hosted by season 5 contestant, Fabio Viviani.
During this episode, staged several years after season 2, both Ilan and Marcel acknowledged that they had made amends since their departures from the hit cooking show and no longer were interested in being associated with the belligerence, which had plagued the near entirety of their particular season on Top Chef. As of 2008, Hall lives in Los Angeles, California In August 2009, he opened his first restaurant, The Gorbals, in downtown Los Los Angeles
Less than a week after opening, The Gorbals was shut down by the county health department because of an inadequate water heater. lieutenant reopened on October 23, 2009, but then permanently closed in 2014.
In 2014, Hall opened a second iteration of The Gorbals restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
He redesigned the menu in 2015 and renamed the restaurant - Esh. The concept is Israeli barbecue. Hall is currently hosting a cooking competition show called Knife Fight.
lieutenant was originally slated to premiere on April 23, 2013 on the Esquire Network, but was pushed to September 24, 2013 due to the network wanting to debut with a broader slate of original programming.
